OpenAI surpasses SpaceX to become the world’s top private company, closing a $6.6B share sale at a $500B valuation and cementing its AI leadership.
Perplexity releases Comet free worldwide, adds Background and Email Assistants, and expands Comet Plus at $5 with 80% revenue share to publishers.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 debuts with advanced realism, audio sync, cameo controls, provenance signals, and a creation-first social feed, with API and Android on the way.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 (keeping Sonnet pricing) while adding Agent SDK, VS Code support, checkpoints, code execution, and Chrome automation to push AI into production coding.
OpenAI’s Instant Checkout brings in-chat purchasing to U.S. users via ACP with Stripe. Etsy is live at launch; >1M Shopify merchants are slated to follow.
Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of trade secret theft, alleging stolen source code and data center strategies via employee poaching. OpenAI rejects the charges.
Meta has unveiled Vibes, a short-form video feed of AI-generated clips available in over 40 countries through its Meta AI app and website.
The Alibaba and Nvidia deal integrates Physical AI into PAI, expands data centers across eight countries, and boosts AI spending while China curbs Nvidia chip sales.
Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max with trillion-parameter scale and adds open-source Qwen3-Omni, a real-time multimodal model with competitive benchmarks and clear API pricing.
